Abstract
There is a saying that a house divided cannot stand. Covert and unacknowledged splits within an institution, whether the latter be a family, a business, a political party or a college like our own, make that institution vulnerable to external attacks. I wonder if Dr Wooldridge's torpedo would have had the devastating effect it did if our Fellows had been more tolerantly united in diversity, and in the knowledge that ours is a multidimensional practice with roots in biology, sociology, psychology and anthropology? United that is, in some acknowledgement that we need and are able to respect each other's differing perspectives. Since none of us can entirely escape the confines of our personal perspective, our view of truth is necessarily partial, but conversation can increase our access to the whole.